More Questions on Indian Economy
- Q. The first fully Indian Bank is:
A)Central Bank of India
B)Canara Bank
C)Punjab National Bank
D)State Bank of India
Answer: Punjab National Bank
- Q. National food for Work programme aimed at intensifying the generation of supplementary wage employment was launched in:
A)September 2003
B)November 2004
C)October 2004
D)January 2004
Answer: November 2004
- Q. One of the reasons for India’s occupational structure remaining more or less the same over the years has been that
A)productivity in agriculture has been high enough to induce people to stay with agriculture
B)investment pattern has been directed towards capital intensive industries
C)ceiling on land holdings have enabled more people to own land and hence their preference to stay wit
D)people are largely unaware of the significance of transition from agriculture to industry for econom
Answer: investment pattern has been directed towards capital intensive industries
- Q. Inflation is measured in India on the basis of which ‘Index’?
A)Consumer Price Index for urban workers
B)Wholesale Price Index
C)Consumer Price Index for agricultural workers
D)National income deflation
Answer: Wholesale Price Index
- Q. Revenue of the state governments are raised from the following sources, except
A)expenditure tax
B)agricultural income tax
C)entertainment tax
D)land revenue
Answer: agricultural income tax
- Q. Debenture holders of a company are its
A)creditors
B)shareholders
C)debtors
D)directors
Answer: creditors
- Q. During which five year plan was the annual growth rate registered at 2.5%?
A)First Five Year Plan (1961-66)
B)Second Five Year Plan (1961-66)
C)Fourth Five Year Plan (1961-66)
D)Third Five Year Plan (1961-66)
Answer: Third Five Year Plan (1961-66)
- Q. The budget deficit means
A)difference between revenue receipts and revenue expenditure
B)difference between all receipts and all the expenditure
C)the excess of total expenditure, including loans, net of lending over revenue receipts
D)fiscal deficit less interest payments
Answer: difference between all receipts and all the expenditure
- Q. National Agricultural Insurance Scheme replacing Comprehensive Crop Insurance Scheme was introduced in the year
A)1998
B)1997
C)1999
D)2000
Answer: 1999
- Q. Resurgent India bonds were issued in US dollar, Pound Sterling and
A)Deutsche Mark
B)Japanese Yen
C)Euro
D)French Franc
Answer: Deutsche Mark
- Q. Deficit financing means that the government borrows money from the
A)local bodies
B)big businessmen
C)RBI
D)IMF
Answer: RBI
- Q. The condition of indirect taxes in the country’s revenue is approximately
A)75 percent
B)80 percent
C)70 percent
D)86 percent
Answer: 86 percent
- Q. Reserve Bank of India was nationalized in the year
A)1945
B)1935
C)1949
D)1969
Answer: 1949
- Q. If an economy is equilibrium at the point where plans to save and to invest are equal, then government expenditure must be
A)equal to government income
B)zero
C)larger than government income
D)negative
Answer: equal to government income
- Q. Regional rural banks I=have limited area of operation II=have free access to liberal refinance facilities from NABARD III=are required to lend only to weaker sections
A)II, III
B)I, III
C)I, II, III
D)I, II
Answer: I, II
- Q. If the cash reserve ratio is lowered by the RBI, its impact on credit creation will be to
A)decrease it
B)no impact
C)increase it
D)None of the above
Answer: increase it
- Q. Earn While you Learn scheme has been launched by:
A)Ministry of Youth
B)Ministry of Tourism
C)Both A and B
D)None of these
Answer: Ministry of Tourism
- Q. Where was first gold refinery established?
A)Shirpur (Maharashtra)
B)Bangalore (Karnataka)
C)Ahmedabad (Gujarat)
D)Mumbai (Maharashtra)
Answer: Shirpur (Maharashtra)
- Q. In the second nationalization of commercial banks, ___ banks were nationalized.
A)5
B)4
C)6
D)8
Answer: 6
- Q. Finance Commission is constituted after every:
A)5 years
B)3 years
C)6 years
D)4 years
Answer: 5 years
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